Polls Show Fading Support for Gun Control…
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Loading ...By Doug Little on May 23, 2009 in Second Amendment Issues
More Americans Not Supportive of New Laws
A number of recent polls show Americans are growing increasingly less supportive of new regulations to restrict firearms. The Houston Chronicle reports that the shift in public opinion is so strong that a potential ban on so-called “assault weapons”, once backed by 3 in 4 Americans “now rates barely 1 in 2″. Frank Newport, the editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll said “Every bit of data is showing us that Americans are getting more conservative about gun control”. In a CNN/Opinion Research poll, the change is very apparent. According to the CNN poll, in 2001, 54% of American favors stricter gun laws. In 2009, that number has dropped to 39% of Americans favoring gun control. Think about that. This would represent a change of 15% in a very short period of time. This means that ALMOST 60% of Americans are NOT SUPPORTIVE of gun control.
In another poll by ABC News-Washington Post conducted in April 2009, the researchers found that for the first time, a clear majority of Americans, 57 percent, don’t think stricter gun laws would reduce violent crime. On finding in the poll characterized by pollsters as “a new high and first substantial majority” found that 61% of Americans say that enforcement of existing guns laws would accomplish more than passing new, stricter laws.
For the first time in a Pew Research survey conducted in April 2009, 45 percent of Americans believe it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns than it is to control it. This number is up from 37% percent in the same poll taken only a year ago. The number of people supporting gun control in this poll has dropped significantly from 58% in 2008 to 49% in 2009.
Each and every one of you should use this information to help people understand that each American’s rights under the Second Amendment are a core value in this country and that people are starting to understand the importance of the preservation of that right to firearms ownership…
Thanks to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the Houston Chronicle, ABC News and Pew Research for providing the information contained in this post…
